Have you ever felt inspired by a motivational speech in a movie? Notice how there’s a bunch of guys, with low morale, whether it be an army, or a group of basketball players and even though there’s community, they still need a pep talk to get motivated and full of energy. I’ve reiterated this over and over again, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it and indulge it will eat its fruit and bear the consequences of their words.” – Proverbs 18:21 – Now when you’re reading that, it could be taken negatively because it says “and bear the consequences of their words.” However the actual definition of consequences is: a result or effect of an action or condition. Speaking life will have the consequence of energy, motivation, empowerment, focus… and speaking death, as in saying out loud, “I’m frustrated,” “I’m overwhelmed,” “What the ****,” see sometimes we actually let a curse slip out of our mouth, some more than others, when we’re frustrated or mad or stuck with something. It’s far better to say something like, “Hmmm, a worthy opponent, Stress, I accept your challenge, FOR SPARTA!” Make it fun, get excited, see the bigger picture, go look at your visionboard, go look at yourself in the mirror, smile, and say, “You’re incredible, I love you, you’re so loveable, you’re going to kick some butt today, go back in there and show them what you got!”
Here are a few motivational speeches from some awesome movies:
Be grateful for opportunities, start off your day with gratitude, I mean seriously, that’s Jack Canfields advice… it’s also God’s advice. When the Israelites where in the desert instead of being thankful when He rained down manna on the camp, they were complaining, and He didn’t like that, although He sent Quail afterwards, He still felt like they should be grateful, and being grateful opens your mind to a whole different world of possibilities. I like to use the Gratitude App on the iPhone
Time boxing is a practice where you set a timer and only work on that project up until the timer is done. Instead of working on the project all day, it’s better to spread it out throughout the week. Don’t spend too long on a project… I’d say max 4 hours. Set your time and make sure you get the most important things done as well, like spending time with your loved ones. I like using Zen Timer. Make sure you get the other things done that are important to you and don’t feel like you’ve got to get a project done THAT day, it’s far better to plan life a week at a time, and a month at a time, and a year at a time, and even five years at a time… if you only give yourself one day to get something done, you’ll get frustrated for sure… it’s better to take a look at the week, calculate how many hours you think it’s going to take to get that big project done, and then schedule those hours during your week and when those hours come, use the time box technique and remove all distractions, including putting your phone on airplane mode and disabling all notifications on your computer. Another way to help you get motivated is to look at your vision board. Many people waste time looking at porn or watching TV (which is pretty close to porn these days), and they don’t realize that our desire to see beauty is a good thing, when used properly. To look at the beauty of nature is always good, hiking up a mountain can really clear your mind… you can also look at your vision board, which is what can draw you in – there’s this movie called the Jumper, and think of your life like that, where you can look at an image and literally jump into the picture:
You heard of the old saying, “Waking up on the wrong side of the bed,” haven’t you? Here are a few ways you can “Wake up on the right side.” Jack Canfield, author of ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul, Success Principles, and Aladdin Factor,’ says that one of the things he noticed about hundreds of successful individuals is they started their day with the following routine; beginning each day with gratitude – meaning literally as soon as you wake up, start saying out loud what you’re grateful for, keep saying it, for example: “Thank You God for this day… I am so grateful for this bed I was able to sleep in, I am so grateful that I can see with my eyes, walk with my legs… that I can fly anywhere in the world, thank You God that You have given me the power to get wealth, I am so grateful that I am loved, I am thankful that I have good friends, I am glad that I can accomplish my goals, I am thankful for the blessings You’re going to pour into my life today.” Secondly, they do some exercise. Exercise is vitally important for motivation and energy, so take at least 20 minutes to exercise in the morning, here’s a few 20 minute exercises you can do… I prefer doing some power yoga – here’s the dude from P90X taking you through a 20 minute yoga session:
Followed by the exercises is listening to or reading something motivational, whether it be the Bible, or a podcast you subscribe to or a speech on YouTube, get some sort of inspiration. If there’s something that makes you cry, watch it, and get inspired by it. The next thing, whether you have a 9 to 5 job or if you’re an entrepeneur who makes their own schedule, after your workout and preferably while you’re listening to your motivational material, you need to be putting on your freshest clothes, put on your best cologne/perfume, do your hair, literally get ready as if you had a hot date with a member of the opposite sex that you are meeting for brunch. Here’s the thing: When you don’t treat yourself with respect and make the effort to improve the the way you look, then you won’t treat your work with respect. If it takes you an hour or two that is completely fine, shave, pluck your eyebrows, get rid of your blackheads do a mud mask if you have to, the important part is feeling so fresh and so clean. This is vitally important for several reasons, first of all the whole “Dress for Success” thing has a lot of merit to it, I even read that putting on a fresh pair of socks give you a huge boost of energy… the other reason is that you never know whether or not you might have an emergency, where someone needs you urgently for something, and you won’t have to worry about getting ready. So if you’re not ready to go on a date right now, go get ready and come back and read the rest of this. Go on, get sexy. And while you’re at it, get confident, Tony robbins eloquently explains the power of body posture here:
Another exercise from Eben Pagan, one that I really enjoyed doing during the time when I did his “Talent to Income” course, is the concept of creating your ideal day. This goes along with visualizing your day going exactly how you want it to go, but takes it to the next level because it’s not about what you have to do, but what your perfect day would be like, whether it’s waking up on top of a mountain camping with the love of your life and getting in your personal helicopter and flying to another island somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle to hanging out in the hot springs of the Volcano in Costa Rica and dancing the night away… you have complete freedom to create your ideal day – and he suggests doing this first thing in the morning, even before your gratitude journal – and I think even before that you should try and write down your dreams… writing down your dreams is a worthy exercise and it’s fun to read the interpretations of them – even Daniel in the Bible translated the dream to King Nebuchadnezzar, so there’s something to be said about dreams. Check out the meanings of the symbols in your dreams at Dream Moods.
Humor is also very important, it’s very good to have a laugh in the beginning of the day, everyone gets way too serious these days, and I’ve found one of the best ways to get your daily dose of humor, and I have it available on me when I’m out and about selling CDs… it’s pure laughter! HAHAHA! You probably don’t notice it as much as you should but in all of the sitcoms they have laugh tracks. One of the websites I found was Listen to Laughter – check it out. Here’s one you can just play right now… this one made me LOL!
Another quote that has really stuck with me is, “Schedule your priorities, don’t just prioritize your schedule.” Clarifying values is absolutely important – when you clarify your values all of the decisions you face throughout the day… will be easy, and you can set goal based on those values. Daily tasks are subsequently planned in accordance with these goals. Now we’ll go into how to solve the problem of overwhelming to-do lists and how you can make sure you’re focused (and at peace) throughout the day. A major source of stress in our lives comes from the feeling that we have an impossible number of things to do. For example, if you take on a project and try to do the whole thing all at once, you’re going to be overwhelmed. Similarly, if you take a task and break it into too many small steps, it’s equally overwhelming, daunting and frustrating. Tony Robbins says, “The number-one skill that will allow you to succeed at anything (while minimizing stress) is the ability to take a variety of action items and group them together, orienting them toward a common intention and result. This is called “chunking.” When you start thinking of your to-dos as clusters of desired outcomes, you’ll keep stress at bay and learn to focus on your greater goals—rather than getting overwhelmed by the minutiae. And for that huge, amorphous target, simply put the process in reverse: Write down your actionable steps, assembling them in doable chunks. This shift in thinking will make you work smarter and more effectively, and achieve success through skyhigh productivity. You’ll start to feel inspired—rather than forced—to follow through!
Eben Pagan shares, “You can’t actually manage time, for it runs at the same speed whatever you decide to do. Rather what you can do is learn to manage yourself, which is a big challenge nowadays since we are dealing with all kinds of challenges that we never had to deal with before. People fail at setting goals because they either see it as a “killjoy” activity or they actually don’t know how to set goals. I propose that people should look at goal setting as more of a problem-solving task that requires imagination, focus, setting up the right conditions, and of course hard work. Minimizing and eliminating distraction and interruption. Focusing on the high value activities, creating habits, and routines so that we do the right things every day. Get crystal clear on the handful of activities that bring you the highest returns and profit you the most, then organize your life around those.
Shout out to Eben’s “Wake Up Productive” course. His main point is that in order for us to be happy, aside from being filled with the Holy Spirit and be about Kingdom Business, we must focus on our High Lifetime Value Tasks.
Brian Tracey is a master at productivity, he’s written like 50 books and changed countless lives. One of the things he stresses more than anything is to get the biggest task done first – the one daunting task that you are trying to put off, the task that you should have done already… you’re just passing the day away getting distracted aren’t you? Well that’s why you’re reading this… it’s time to apply everything you’re reading here. He calls getting the biggest thing done first, “Eating the Frog.”
“If I could only do one thing today, what would it be?” Stephen Covey calls them the “Big Rocks.” Put the “big rocks” into your day first, otherwise they’ll never get in. Then you go ahead and do it before anything else – mind you, stay healthy – eat at the right times, drink water, and do some deep breathing – but seriously, whether it takes 30 minutes to do or four hours to do, turn off all distractions, get into the right mental state by getting motivated, use the chunking method on the tasks, and decide on what result you want by what time – then do it.
Sometimes it’s great to do a Screen Share with an expert in that area of field, which means the night before try and set up a time for someone to Screen Share with you so that you can work on the task together. You can get people to do that for you on Fiverr.com as well as Odesk.com – you can also try contacting people who are experts at their craft on LinkedIN or people in your Facebook Network – and most people are getting added to a thousand groups on Facebook on a daily basis but why not take advantage of that? Find groups you can join of people with similar interests and chat them up – Facebook even has it’s own video chat – but if you get on Skype you can actually share the screen and I love walking around with my iPad watching someone else do what I tell them to on the computer, it’s very relaxing, things are getting done, and I don’t have to be the one sitting in front of the computer doing it all – I’d much rather be focusing on the more important things to me, the stuff that’s on my Dreamliner, the things that I want to be, do, have, see, know, and experience.
Quadrant II
Taking notes sometimes is a source of frustration because there’s so many notes that fly around after you’ve written them, many times being forgotten about. Some people use sticky notes, some people write on papers – for me I’ve got a ton, and I mean like thousands of papers that have mind-maps on them, just one word connected to another word, and during the time I was writing them I had such passion and vigor, revelations and ideas would come to me lightning fast, and I’d be all motivated and take a bunch of action on what I wrote down, but then the next day, I’d forget most of it and whatever I didn’t get done the day before would be lost in the abyss of other notes that I’ve written out. So it’s super important, as a habit, to not only write down who you met that day and what would be possible if you teamed up with them (I like to write notes in my contacts with affirmations of what, ideally, I’d do with that person.) So take pictures of your notes, import them into Evernote, tag the post, and really take time to feel the emotions in what you wrote and write out the tasks with the rapid planning method in a goal setting program like Omnifocus. Listen you’ve got to have a solid place to write your notes, and if you’ve got paper notes, you need to scan those into Evernote and tag them and write down the actual results you want out of those tasks.
When I’m not motivated, when there’s not something I’m going towards specifically, a clear visual image in my mind, something I can affirm to myself, with passion and vigor, sometimes I sit there, working on mundane tasks, Q3/Q4 honestly, things that could be so easily delegated on Fiverr.com for $5 to a virtual assistant who can work for 3 hours for me. Being motivated to do all of the things I’m working on rests solely on my self-discipline. Discipline to start the mornings off right, with proper nourishment, exercise, and stretching. To focus on the highest priority task, get the most important tasks done after that, and then get out there and make my target daily income so that in a few months I can accomplish all of the goals I set for myself. It’s ridiculous how much I spin my wheels working on stuff that other people will be eventually doing for me. My time is better spent finishing systems of income, like my online shopping cart for tourism, then the services market on Rap Com and then finishing new videos on my music and finishing the advanced accounts on Prayer Pharmacy. I can get people to write on How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit, and I can get my cards with me, I can add everything to my signature so everyone I deal with on my e-mails has links to everything and I can go about my day. I recently wrote a post on how to end social media distraction, e-mails, and all that jazz. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stayed up all night working on projects on the computer 0nly to miss the entire day and wake up anywhere from noon to 5pm. I’d much rather wake up early because the deadline of the day sets in. Plus you can make all of the calls at the right time of the day, get your workout in, and set yourself up for an amazing day. I’m setting alarms for everything – you should see my alarm system, alarms for deep breathing, alarms for when to get to the gym to work out, alarms for waking up and going to sleep, a nap alarm, alarms for drinking water, and a lucid dreaming alarm for while I’m sleeping. I’m very conscious of the fact that I need more focus in my life, a friend told me I needed to focus on one things, and I can’t tell you how many times that’s been echoed in my life. As soon as I hit a wall in one thing, or as soon as I think about something I will write it down fast on a paper, and next to it write, AHHHH HELP!! I feel overwhelmed at times with the amount of things that pop up but one of the most important things I’ve found is having a detailed To Do List like OmniFocus and using the Getting Things Done approach. Mind-mapping is great to organize written notes, and to think of new ideas, but if you’re going to leave it there in a mind-map and not really take action on it then there’s a problem. Plus if you’re working on something that needs to be done before a certain time, you should be focusing on that.
There’s what I like to call Quantum Leap goals, as in goals that once accomplished, change the entire context of your life. For example, if you live at home with your parents, and every month you rearrange your room, putting the bed in a different part of the room and the dresser in another, that’s changing the content of the room. If you make a lot of money buy a 5 bedroom mansion, that’s changing the entire context of your life. Then you’ll have people who would want to move in with you because they want to change the context of their life as well. When you do something huge in your life, your entire context will change… from having to focus on getting enough money to pay bills, to how to invest $500,000 into a business and make money off of it. It’s a different focus of attention, and if you keep doing the same thing expecting a different result… that’s insanity. You need to take a look at your system and find out a better way – speaking to mentors who write blogs and those who are in your network of people is important, finding professionals on LinkedIN is a great place to start. Start using a CRM – I use Reflect Customer Database because it’s free and lightweight and it’s better than keeping everything in an excel spreadsheet. One of the things that I like to do is have an auto-responder on my e-mail, text messages, and social media. It may take some time to set that up, but it’s worth it.
Check out this Quantum Leap Guided Visualization, and do it today.
Do you feel stuck? Try hiring a consultant to talk to and get motivated to do more in your business – best $5 you’ll spend.
Do you have a personal assistant? Hire a personal assistant on Fiverr, they work for 3 hours for $5. Simply send them audio memos of what you want them to do. It’s so vitally important to have this. It’s a stream of reflection that can only come from having someone to do what you want them to – to do what you could do yourself, but can’t because of the 24 hour in a day time constraints. With sleep taking up a 3rd of that time it’s important to set up your routines for success.
Questions for Reflection:
What is my highest value activity?
What can be delegated?
What should I be doing more of?
What should I be doing less of?
What should I stop doing?
What should I start doing?
What should I be doing more of?
What should I be doing less of?
What should I stop doing?
What should I start doing?
Below is a wonderful video of Harp Music, it’s said that Harp music has healing properties.
“So it came about that whenever the evil spirit was on Saul, David took a harp and played it with his hand;
so Saul would be refreshed and be well, and the evil spirit would leave him.”
“…walk habitually in the [Holy] Spirit [seek Him and be responsive to His guidance], and then you will certainly not carry out the desire of the sinful nature [which responds impulsively without regard for God and His precepts]. For the sinful nature has its desire which is opposed to the Spirit, and the [desire of the] Spirit opposes the sinful nature; for these [two, the sinful nature and the Spirit] are in direct opposition to each other [continually in conflict], so that you [as believers] do not [always] do whatever [good things] you want to do. But if you are guided and led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the Law. Now the practices of the sinful nature are clearly evident: they are sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality (total irresponsibility, lack of self-control), idolatry, sorcery, hostility, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions [that promote heresies], envy, drunkenness, riotous behavior, and other things like these. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Against such things there is no law.”
